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pleasure principle

NOUN
principle behind instincts
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WEAK
reality principle


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It won’t if we adopt a Mozartean pleasure principle that is substantive, not superficial.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 30, 2021

I wanted to edit this anthology with the pleasure principle.

From Washington Post • Aug. 24, 2021

The pastry chef Grayson Claes, who comes to Sona from Eleven Madison Park, has a keen sense of how to complicate a dessert without losing the pleasure principle.

From New York Times • Jun. 7, 2021

The excessive, destabilising bit of the pleasure principle that’s channelling the death drive.

From The Guardian • Dec. 24, 2019

The transition from the pleasure principle to that of fact is the most important advance in the development of the ego.

From A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Freud, Sigmund